Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] that [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have already seen that white-collar staff were introduced into the engineering industry as programming adjuncts to CNC machine tools . |
| 2 | Trinidadians , disgusted by their violence ( they captured Mr Robinson and shot him in the leg ) , nevertheless reckoned that poor people had a lot to grumble about , as the government slashed away at public spending to rectify past extravagance . |
| 3 | In practice , few juries have ever supposed that ordinary people turn away so consistently from the sort of pornography brought before British courts in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 4 | In India , it is still believed that certain people are able to assume the shape of a manticore , which then circles villages looking for human prey . |
| 5 | It is not widely known that Old FF keeps a diary . |
| 6 | It is often said that elderly people are glad to take on the role of grandparent or even great-grandparent . |
| 7 | Because of this it is often assumed that cleaning staff are familiar with the basics especially when women are employed . |
| 8 | It is well accepted that heavy sheep grazing of Agrostis/ Festuca grass swards in the uplands favours more resilient species , especially Nardus stricta and Juncus squarrosus at the expense of these finer grasses . |
| 9 | It is well known that female Prosobranch gastropods have the capacity to store sperm for short periods ( Fretter and Graham , 1962 ) . |
| 10 | He has now achieved a similar reversal of consensus with regard to Clavierübung 111 and the Canonic Variations on ‘ Vom Himmel hoch ’ It has been too readily assumed that printed works were conceived as entities in their final form shortly before publication . |
| 11 | His argument may have turned out indecisively , but Halley evidently believed that scientific data were relevant to theological questions . |